Article | 04-June-2018
politicians and welfare workers, two hypotheses are examined, resting upon social capital theory. The hypotheses were quantified and explicated with different variables. The first hypothesis states that heterophile networks imply more social capital, which referred to different measurements (size, density, homophily). This could be partially validated since the analysed networks of association representatives (n=12) were denser and slightly more heterophile than those of party representatives (n=21
Isabelle Borucki
Connections, Volume 37 , ISSUE 1-2, 45–52
research-article | 04-November-2019
interpret patterns of connections among food bloggers on Twitter: Social capital (Lin, 1999, 2002), conservation of resources (Hobfoll, Freedy, Lane, & Geller, 1990), and homophily (McPherson, Smith-Lovin, & Cook, 2001; Rogers & Bhowmik, 1970). Social capital broadly relates to an individual’s motivation to form social relationships to gain access to resources (Lin, 1999, 2002). Some existing research suggests a positive association between social networking site use and perceived social capital. For
Allison D. Hepworth,
Jess Kropczynski,
Justin Walden,
Rachel A. Smith
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 20 , ISSUE 4, 1–21
Article | 13-December-2019
Włodzimierz Okrasa,
Dominik Rozkrut
Statistics in Transition New Series, Volume 20 , ISSUE 4, 167–179